Summer Eve Pipe Burdened Life Reflections
A fragment captures a man seated at his door one summer evening smoking a pipe with listless air. He appears uninterested and weary, his life described as a burden that nothing can ease.
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1889
Page
4
A fragment captures a man seated at his door one summer evening smoking a pipe with listless air. He appears uninterested and weary, his life described as a burden that nothing can ease.
In a sugar camp tale a man recalls courting Miss Brown during a sap run on a spring morning near Boston. He flirted, rivaled Joe Southworth, faced a feared catamount, and finally walked Miss Brown home amid thawing woods and a warm fire. The yarn blends rustic life with a sweet romance and a dash of danger.
A vivid travel scene across the Ganges at dawn shows terraces crowded with pilgrims and cows while a priest marks worshippers with a ritual powder. The vivid account shifts to a sharp critique of medical honesty, praising Warner's Safe Cure and condemning physicians who profit from deceptive practice.
The Iowa State Register argues for early maturity in hogs and cattle to maximize profits. It notes steers can gain about 2 pounds daily in year one, then 1 pound in year two, with diminishing returns by year three, and hogs about 1 pound daily for the first nine months with little extra gain later. Emphasizes feeding to yield weight and criticizes selling calves too young and keeping steers in poor condition. It urges farmers to move steers to maturity quickly and keep corn away from railheads to maximize returns.
A round American woman who journeyed to Burmah as a missionary married her first convert. Burmese now seek more missionaries. A fiancé spends more on an engagement ring than on his wife in a year.
Advertisers claim Lane’s Family Medicine cures diseases of the blood liver and kidneys and improves complexion. The ad promises a free trial to 100 ladies and 100 men who visit any druggist, with a large-size package priced at 50 cents. Children are said to like it and many praise the remedy.
A periodAdvice filled column extols travel safety and health remedies for voyagers. It touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for seasickness, praises Steette Machmenry in England, and recommends Carter’s Little Liver Pills, Linl’s Honey of Horehound and Tar, Pike’s Toothache Drops, and other products. It notes a bogus noble test and mentions axe production.
West bound timetable for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad dated March 10 1889. Includes schedule details for trains departing and arriving at various endpoints.
Schedule note for the Columbus and Cincinnati Midland Railroad dated Novy 18 1888 in Central Time. Describes through trains between Columbus and Cincinnati with connections in Union Depots and a Pittsburgh sleeper on the 3 55 a m departure from Columbus. Mentions the 7 10 p m Fast Express to Pittsburgh via Wheel ing and notes agents and Cleveland Orrville and Akron connections.
Central Standard time. Steubenville and Pittsburgh schedules show local expresses, accommodations, and through coaches. Trains link Steubenville, Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cadiz, New Cumberland with through connections to Columbus Cincinnati Indianapolis and St Louis. Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars offered on all through trains East and West.
Train No. 13 leaves Toledo at 7 45 p m carrying passengers west of Kingsway. The line now runs Toledo to Bowerston linking with the Pennsylvania System for all points East. Through car service between Toledo Cambridge and Marietta. Connects Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh and Chicago. Woodford James M Hall general manager and passenger agent.
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